CONCERT
Atelier Franz West, Vienna (A)
WESTMUSIK
Franz West commissioned the composer Michael Mautner to write pieces of music for various occasions. This musical evening offers the first opportunity to experience all four compositions set to music in West’s former studio.
May 20, 2025, 7 pm
Esteplatz 3/2, 1030 Vienna
Limited space available
Registration at kontakt@fwps.at
pay as you wish
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Program
Die Ethik des Eiterns
Tape piece with the voice of Franz West for the Gerngrosssäule at the MAK, 2001, duration 5’43”
Levitazione
Piece for trumpet and tape for the exhibition and performance in Rome, 2003
Video by Andreas Donhauser, duration 18′
Die Fragen hätten Antworten, diese aber keine Fragen
Cantata for Cy Twombly, text by Franz West, 2009
Vocal trio, trumpet, violoncello and keyboard, duration 10′
KÖB
Motet for 3 male voices, violoncello and keyboard based on text by Franz West, 2010, duration 6′
Participants REIHE Zykan +
Mara Achleitner | violoncello
Richard Klein, Gernot Heinrich, Gebhard Heegmann | vocal trio
Franz Koglmann | trumpet
Michael Mautner | keyboard, composition, direction
mmautner.org
reihezykanplus.org
Irene Suchy | Moderation
April 2025
SCREENING
Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna (A)
Nonverbale Poesie. Franz West und Film
„… From the 1980s onwards, West also developed films and videos in close collaboration with companions and artist friends. These informal collaborations resulted in eclectic moving images with a wide range of styles, from theatrical productions to surreal combinations of footage. A selection of these films will be shown at Blickle Kino, accompanied by a discussion with Wendy Auböck, Songül Boyraz and Bernhard Riff. …“
April 4, 2025, 6-8 pm
February 2025
EXHIBITION
Posten Moderne, Trondheim (NOR)
Postcards for the Future
“… History meets the present as PoMo opens its doors once again in Trondheim’s historic main post office building. The inaugural exhibition showcases spectacular works from the museum’s own collection and you’ll also find unique loans.
Meeting Point (2010) is one of Franz West’s works on display. Here there is space for two people to sit and talk to each other or lie quietly and think about the big and small questions of life. …”
February 14 to June 22, 2025
February 2025
EXHIBITION
Austrian Cultural Forum London (UK)
Painting Sculpture: Sophie Barber & Franz West
“… The exhibition juxtaposes West’s iconic Passstücke with Barber’s sculptural paintings, emphasizing the tactile qualities of both artists’ practices. …”
February 28 to April 17, 2025
February 2025
EXHIBITION
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana (DK)
Parrhesia* - Works from the Collection
“… *Parrhesia is ancient Greek for boldness, freedom of speech, candour. It is also the title of a sculpture group by Franz West on view in the exhibition.
The Louisiana West Wing features works from the museum collection. Focusing on 21st-century art, the exhibition explores the interplay of artistic disciplines – film, photography, sculpture, installation and painting. …”
November 28, 2024 to March 16, 2025
November 2024
EXHIBITION
Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut „Haus Wittgenstein“, Vienna (A)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Ein Haus für Gretl
“…Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein had been busy since 1925 with plans for a new city palais for her family and had already commissioned Paul Engelmann, a pupil of Adolf Loos, to begin with the drawings. She invited Ludwig Wittgenstein to try his hand as an architect and it was this trio who in 1928 realised a one-of-a-kind building − the only one ever actually built by a philosopher, full of unique elements and not classifiable into any architectural tradition. …”
Franz West repeatedly refers to Wittgenstein in his works and thinking. In the exhibition chairs complete the former dining room.
November 28 bis Dezember 13, 2024
November 2024
EXHIBITION
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F)
The Cynics Republic
“…The exhibition ‘The Cynics Republic’ offers a counter-narrative of the history of performance. It offers visitors the chance to experience an exhibition constructed as a score and that will be renewed on a daily basis over the course of three weeks. Works will be activated on a daily basis by artists and performers. …”
The Auditorium Diwane by Franz West can be seen there.
November 13 until December 1, 2024
November 2024
SCREENING
Bernhard Cella. Alles vor Ort, nichts vorab
Silent film interview with Franz West
HD-Video, 50 min, 2011
BOOK LAUNCH
Franz West. Eine Außenskulptur
Ger./Engl., 48 S., 21 x 15 cm, Softcover
Salon für Kunstbuch, 2024
November 14, 2024, 7 p.m.
Atelier Franz West
Esteplatz 3/2
1030 Vienna
An event with Salon für Kunstbuch.
Register at kontakt@fpws.at
November 14, 2024
EXHIBITION
Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (A)
Ins Dunkle schwimmen
“… The exhibition Ins Dunkle schwimmen gathers works of art that deal with these contradictory demands in the context of artistic production, encountering abysses and limits in the process. On the one hand, it includes works from the Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna that open up the fiction of the “autonomous work of art” to re-negotiation. …”
October 16, 2024 until February 1, 2025
October 2024
COLLECTION PRESENTATION
Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg (D)
Sammlungsraum
“… The current ‘Sammlungsraum’-presentation at the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, which is only accessible as part of a guided tour, brings together three ‘Sitzskulpturen’ (2001, 2002, 2004), a series that the artist began in the mid-1990s. …”
Fall 2024
September 2024
EXHIBITION
Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim (D)
Deep Distance Tender Touch
“… In the exhibition the spotlight will be on the former villa commissioned and owned by prosperous carmaker Fritz Opel (1875–1938). The title alludes to the deep distance between the Opelvillen’s beginnings and the one or other of the works on show. At the same time, it also refers to the interrelationship between the artworks on display as a tender touch. …”
September 15, 2024 until January 19, 2025
September 2024
EXHIBITION
Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna (A)
Focus Franz West
“… The centerpiece is a work that is a new addition to the collection: Franz West’s nine-part series of collages for the 1990 Biennale, which takes an ironic look at the dialogue between artwork and viewer. The series is a sequel to his earlier Passstücke (Adaptives), portable sculptures that function as a temporary extension of the human body and invite the recipient to interact with them. …”
since September 6, 2024
September 2024
BOOK
Franz West. An Outdoor Sculpture
A group of sculptures was installed in front of the former studio on Esteplatz in Vienna’s third district in December 2022. The five untitled outdoor sculptures in different colors are made of epoxy resin and were placed by Heimo Zobernig. From 1996 to 2012, Franz West created several hundred such works, which represent an important part of his oeuvre.
“With the choice of bright, strong colors, he deliberately contrasted the objects with nature and the urban space. […] The reactions tot he work are understood here as an integral part of the work itself. Later, Franz West was interested in the idea that an interaction with the viewer talks place on a mental level”, says Ines Turian in the publication.
A project in cooperation with KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum.
German/English, 48 pages, 21 x 15 cm, numerous illustrations in color, softcover, 2024
With texts by Patricia Grzonka, Ines Turian
Published by Salon für Kunstbuch
ISBN 978-3-902374-29-5
Orders via E-Mail
€ 25
plus shipping costs
August 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Austrian Court Makes Final Ruling on Franz West Estate
“The court ruling recognizes the late artist’s final wishes over the management of his estate”
Following the Austrian Supreme Court’s recent ruling, the dispute surrounding the legendary Viennese artist’s inheritance has at last been resolved. The ruling named Franz West’s sister, who has since passed away, the rightful heir. During her lifetime she has reached an agreement for the transfer of her brother’s artistic estate to the Franz West Privatstiftung (Franz West Private Foundation), which the artist had
established prior to his death to oversee the management and preservation of his works.
‘We are extremely pleased with this outcome. Finally, we can take action to make Franz West’s work visible again in the public realm, and to advocate for the significance of his artistic legacy. For us, this legal security provides the basis to do so. A number of questions remain to be resolved, but for now we are focusing on devising a forward-looking strategy to uphold West’s legacy, in partnership with museums, galleries and collectors worldwide’, says Roland Grassberger, nephew of the artist and board member of the Franz West Privatstiftung.
November 2023